NVIDIA and Google have teamed up to bring the new Multi-Instance GPU feature, launched with the NVIDIA A100, to GKE. We speak to Kevin Klues from NVIDIA and Pradeep Venkatachalam from Google Cloud on how and why people use GPUs, optimising instance shapes for machine learning, and why less is often more.

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Links from the interview

• Episode 92, with Pramod Ramarao
• Dogecoin
• Training and inference
• 12 things that prove Doom will run on literally anything
• “It runs Doom” subreddit
• CUDA
• vGPUs
• Multi-Instance GPUs
• GKE now supports multi-instance GPUs
• 7 core MacBook Air GPUs
• A100 GPU
• 16 A100 GPUs on a Google Cloud VM
• Running GPUs on GKE
  • Node taints for scheduling
• NVIDIA Container Toolkit
• GCP NVIDIA GPU device plugin
• Kubernetes NVIDIA device plugin
• GTC 2021 talks:
  • A Deep Dive on Supporting Multi-Instance GPUs in Containers and Kubernetes by Kevin and Pradeep
  • Gain Competitive Advantage using ML Ops: Kubeflow and NVIDIA Merlin and Google Cloud by Andrew Stein and Maulin Patel (Google) and Davide Onofrio (NVIDIA)
• Kevin’s KubeCon talk and slides
• Kevin Klues on Twitter